Pittee



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J. G. BRIGGS 8; F. OAVALLARO.

FRUIT PITTE'R.

No. 397,691. Patented Feb. 12, 1889..

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TECIFXQATION forming M Lat'te i's Patgni: No. 392,639

Application filed September 27, 1888 Z29 aZZ whom it may concern:

130 it known that We, JOHN G, BRIGGS and FRANK (l viiiii sino sf San J os, Santa (Ian eonnty, fin te of fziiifornizi, have invented an IGNOR 01* ONE-HATE HIS RiGi'i TO SAID MACKENZIE,

1, dated. February 12, 1889.

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the stone is forced (mi. The fleshof rim ii'iliil shaft in iirusii a wiwni with :r cranig ii whieh is: discharg'mi from the end (if the inm hinu into 2L rvcopmvio for the pnryosel it aim consists in (eri'ain {19min 05 (mnstrnciiun, aii of which wi'il be more fniiy expinined by reference to the ncc-(nnpnnyinn'; iinw'ing's in \\hi(5h- Fignrh I is n perspectiveWinn oi our smii'hinw. Fig. :5 shows a inodfiiinaiinn, n 'E s hi. ii wimnn in sw iionst 'i ig. 3' mi ihgiUWP) hnr. i

A ish izilaiv having :1 (ii-inn; iLni cinch 0nd. Around Lin-rndrums chain ULiiS'PHSS, having 1m zu'hmi h)- i imn illilS'-. PF- siuis or strips uxi'vniiiug Hm iuil Width (ii flit iabiv, and having;- iimir upper nni'iaceg pmiurnimi with holes i ,whiuh push uni ireiy through. The upper sin-Ewes have ini gn iionniim'snniq msmnin'iolminr (icprenshnin E made in ihmn, in "which the holes 1) are cntrn'i. (hone ricprensions are of such a-iizo as in receive the .5 peaches, piunis, or other fruit from which the stones; are to in removed. irans\'crse slots. i" are nnuieineross those openings for the pm" p050. 0i". admitting the edges 01. the knives G by Which the flesh oi" the fruitis out, 50 him? i the stone can be forced out. These knives i are in the present case shown in the'ifnrin 0f thin Stfifii 'bimivn, ii, s eared to the i tftiih and werticniiy-reciprnmiirig bar I, inuving IS a (retail 'in -V .r

.ing in guides in ii similar 12 i'i'iiitliwi I. This mm or table is pari'ora-teii ii] nix-1 in mrnmi i (i in the present case Q by powuiz if iicniiui. the whmii iii has a whim; N, p (i inits, an thaw/t mun rm'nintion. ruiier Wiii some no i 1 wii ihr) gin/vi res/3w i hu iiiiiiif in 'v, 1 1

gnnii with "the perfarnfiainnsi in wire ziln'iveqnmi each (if inew w-vfnrations is surrounded by curved elastic blades- T, which extend upward from the surface of the table a short distance. The ends of this table are connected by pitmen U with the cranks V, formed in the outer ends of the crank-shat t M, above described. These cranks are formed upon the opposite side of the axis from the cranks which operate the reciprocating knives, and it will be manifest that as the knives arel'irought down and the spurs or points press upon the stone these elastic eutters will at the same instant be brought upward, so that they will pass into the fruit and follow around the stone, opening out by reasonof their elasticity, thus separating it from the flesh on the lower side of the peacha' process which would not be necessary in the case of freestone peaches.

Having thus described our invention, what i we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. A fruit-stoning machine consisting of the endless belt formed of transverse bars linked together and drums around which they pass and by which they are driven, said bars having the concave depressions or chambers upon their surfaces, holes through the bottom of the chambers, and slots extending through their sides, in eombination' with the vertically-reciprocatingcutters or knives and the pins or spurs by which the pits are forced out, substantially as herein described.

2. The endless traveling belt formed of transverse bars having concave depressions to hold the fruit, holes through the bottom of each depression for the escape of the, stone, and slots extending out at each side, in combi nation with the vertically-reciprocating concave. knives or blades having projecting points or spurs in the center of the arch, substantially as herein described.

3. In a fruit-pitting machine, the endless intermittinglytraveling belt with perforations and concave depressions in the surface, the vertical reciprocating concave knives with central projecting spurs or points, the crankshaft, and connecting-rods, in combination with the ratchet-wheel, pawl, and actuating inechanisni,whereby the belt is moved forward simultaneously with each reciprocation of the knives, substantially as herein described.

4. In a fruit-pitting machine, the endless traveling fruit-carrying bolt, the pawl-andratchet mechanism by which it is advanced, and the vertically reciprocating concave knives or cutters with the central projecting points or spurs,in combination with a second bar beneath the belt, mechanism whereby it is caused to reciprocate in the opposite direction from the cutters, and the elastic upwardly-projecting curved knives'or cutters fixed to its up-.

per surface, substantially as herein described. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands.

JOHN G. BRIGGS.

, FRANK CAVALLARO.

Witnesses: THOMAS HARDING, F. A. MEINEN. 

